Associations to the word «Lexicography»

Wiktionary

LEXICOGRAPHY, noun. The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
LEXICOGRAPHY, noun. (linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.

Dictionary definition

LEXICOGRAPHY, noun. The act of writing dictionaries.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca